Five days into our magical journey of discovery with the Motorola Xoom, we’ve made the following three conclusions: (1) The web browsing and email functions of the Honeycomb OS are fantastic, (2) live Android widgets on a 1280x800, 10.1-inch touch screen are a revelation, and (3) people who complain about the Xoom’s weight and power button location either passed judgment too soon, or still haven’t overcome their iPad separation anxiety.

Today, Nvidia announced its new sweet-spot GPU. Our Lab tests reveal that the GTX 560Ti, an updated and beefed up version of the GTX 460 - Nvidia's previous sweet-spot graphics processor - is a solid performer. Our initial numbers are after the jump, but the short version is that, much like previous reports indicated, the GTX 560 Ti is a reengineering of the GTX 460, a card that we gave high marks in late 2010 for its power and competitive price.

The GTX 560Ti kicks the CUDA cores up to 384 and the stock clock up to 822MHz, with factory-overclocked cards hitting north of 900MHz and as high as the 1GHz mark. Catch our first benchmark runs after the jump.

We finally got our first Windows Phone 7 phone into the lab for testing, and we're pretty excited to show it off. Check out the video below for an in-depth walkthrough of the Windows Phone 7 user interface hosted by Editor-in-Chief George Jones.

If you’ve been following our tablet coverage, you know we’ve been waiting patiently for legitimate iPad competitors. You also know we gave a disappointing 6 verdict to the Dell Streak – more of a large smartphone “phablet” than a legitimate tablet – and that we’re looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, though one can only guess when that piece of gear will hit US shores.

But just when the whole world is focusing on the big-boy hardware vendors – your Dells, your Samsungs, your Toshibas and your RIMs – up pops the little-known Stream TV Networks with a clean, for-all-intents-finished prototype in hand, along with promises to hand off a reviewable unit next week. The tablet is called the eLocity A7, and we basically liked what we saw during 30 minutes of hands-on use.

Here it is, folks, the Parrott AR.Drone Quadricopter, the coolest of all high-tech tech toys, and the darling of trade show floor demonstrations for the last eight months. Well, the supervised test flights in foreign fly zones are over. We’re ready to share some notes on our completely independent, longer term testing.

You’ve surely seen the AR.Drone flying in videos shot at CES, Mac Expo, GDC and E3. In a nutshell, this is a battery-powered quadricopter that you control with your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Android support is planned, but won’t be ready when exclusive retailer Brookstone begins shipping pre-ordered units on Sept 3 this year.

Read on for our full first impressions, and videos of the AR.Drone in action!

Spearheading the 3D charge in the camera world is FujiFilm, who, in a couple of days, will be debuting their Real 3D W3 digital camera.

FujiFilm was kind enough to allow us some hands-on time with the camera, and we're fairly impressed with its capabilities. Before we get down to initial impressions, let's take a quick look at the type of tech you'll be using if you choose to make the jump into the world of 3D photography.

Last year, during research for some project or another, we asked Seagate an offhand question about hybrid drives. Where nearly everybody said that hybrid drives (last seen circa 2005) were dead, Seagate said that the technology had shown promise, but that they had no further comment. We immediately assumed that meant they were working on one, and to our immense satisfaction, today Seagate announced the Momentus XT, a 2.5-inch hybrid drive featuring 500GB of 7200rpm mechanical storage, 4GB SLC NAND flash, and a 32MB cache.

Today Toshiba's taking the wraps off its new netbook. That's right, the same people who brought you the original ultra-portable, the Libretto, are rolling out their first sub-$400 netbook! We got our hands on a pre-production sample of the NB200-series netbooks.

Toshiba sat out the first generation of netbooks, so they could address shortcomings with the genre, and at first glance the NB205 seems to make good on that. The main typing keys are full-size and use a chiclet-style design. When paired with Toshiba's standard-sized touchpad (the largest we've seen on a netbook to date), this is an extremely comfortable laptop for typing. Toshiba claims 9.5 hours of battery life (we haven't tested yet, but we'd expect 6ish hours in a real-world scenario).